Re: Bad quality in Live and Recorded TV...

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I have rarely seen this problem reported in this newsgroup with other then HP PCs with high resolution monitors which leads me to believe that the standard graphics card supplied by HP does a much worse job up scaling the those that are supplied with other vendors PCs. Yes, HD service direct to your TV is the best solution however you may want to consider a new graphics card for you PC since the current generation of Nvidia 8xxx cards and ATI 2xxx cards both have good up scaling capacities, use less power, have 100% decoding of HD/BR DVDs, and DX10 support for the next generation of games.
"Cliff Hemstock" <chemstoc.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EFCC09CD-BE68-4849-81BA-0DE7A878774B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So what is the fix? Get Digital TV signal from cable Co ?????

II just set up the Video card (G-force) to not scale and the
image fills about the center half of my screen, so I see where you are
coming from.

I think this ranks up there with the people THINKING that because they
have an HD TV they are watching HD TV ....

Thanks for the input / help

--
Living the Dream


"Jaime" wrote:

Maybe a little more explanation of what the image looks like would help.

If you are watch SD on a 19" PC monitor (full screen), it's not going to
look like a PC image. SD is only 480 lines of resolution, which is
essentially the lowest resolution for PC monitor. When you have the monitor
set for a higher res (like 1280x1024), the image will look worse than a TV,
because the system has invent all those extra pixels needed to fill the
screen. No different than taking a low res thumbnail and zooming to full
screen; the resolution is what it is. You are also sitting a couple of feet
from the image as opposed to across the room from a TV

How does the image look if you aren't running it full screen?

Have you connected the system to a SD TV, to see what it looks like.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

"Cliff Hemstock" <chemstoc.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AA7A7B0F-4ED4-4E5B-8302-BCA24388944A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Even with KB941229 and running on a HP m8150n
> the video recorder and live TV are still unacceptable on
> a state of the art Viewsonic vx2035wm monitor.
>
> Neither the hardware manufacturer nor Microsoft can
> seem to understand whqat the "problem" is. The problem
> is that this is sold and marketed as a "MultiMedia Machine"
> and it doesn't do regular TV very well. Not even with teh DVI
> connector and all the best codecs loaded.
>
> "Not in the house, not with a mouse, I do not like Green
> Eggs and Ham ..."
>
> Baring all the technical explanations, the "reasonable man"
> consumer would think that if he purchased an $1,800 computer
> it could display a TV signal on a 19 inch screen good enough to watch > it
> !!!
>
> I am not giving up yet ... The Green Button has some hacks that seem to
> work....
> trouble is that even the DVD doesn't paly as good as it dows on the old > TV
> :(
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> Living the Dream
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> "DM" wrote:
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>> As this is an old post I don't know if you're still following it or >> not.
>>
>> I think I'm having the same problem as you and I would be interested >> to
>> know
>> if there is any improvement to recorded tv quality when it is player >> in
>> Windows Media Player (not Media Center)?




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